Hydrocarbon generator



Feb. 2, 1926. 1,571,321

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A TTQRNE Y Patented Feb. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL B. CLARK, OF HARRAH, OKLAHOMA, "ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ARTHUR WANER, OF HARRAH, OKLAHOMA.

HYDROCARBON GENERATOR.

Application filed February 12, 1925. Serial No. 8,844.

1 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL B. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at I'Iarrah, in the county of Oklahoma and State of Oklahoma, have invented a certain new and useful Invention in Hydrocarbon Generators, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention refers to hydrocarbon generators, adapted to combust oils of various consistencies and densities, and it is an object of the invention to provide for the combustion of the hydrocarbon fuel and to aid that combustion by the use of steam.

Other objects of the invention will appear from a further and more complete reading of the following specification, drawing and the claim.

On the sheet of drawings, accompanying and forming a part of the specification,

Figure 1 is a side View, partly fragmented to show construction;

Figure 2 is a top plan View of the same looking into the top of the device, and

Figure 3 is a detail view of an air tube.

In the views, similar characters of reference indicate similar views.

A base plate 3 is associated with a drum 4 of a suitable height to provide for the proper combustion as will appear. l Vithin this drum and centrally thereof are a series of air tubes 5 which are screw-threaded into the plate as at 6 by screw-threads 7 and each of these air tubes passing through the plate 3 for allowing air to enter them, are pro vided with elongated slots 8 substantially equidistantly disposed about the tube as seen for instance in said Figure 3. These tubes are equidistantly disposed about the drum as seen in Figure 2, and are capped as at 9. The air passing through these tubes from the underside of the plate will rush at will through the radially disposed slots 8 for purposes that will appear. Centrally of the drum 4 is a secondary capped drum 10 with cap 11, and this drum is, like the tubes referred to, provided with longitudinal slits 12 passing around the drum as seen in full lines of Figure 1, and in dotted lines of Figure 2.

In the bottom of this drum 10 is an opening 13 for the entry of a steam pipe 1 1 for delivering steam into the drum for radiation through the slits 12. According to the pressure of the steam, so also will be its action, as such upon the flame, to be presently set forth.

In the base plate 3, at 15 an oil feed pipe 16 enters, controlled suitably, of course, and this feed permits the oil 17 to flow in as seen in Figure 2 and also as seen in Figure 1, to a point in height shown in said Figure 1. This oil when ignited, flames up and mixes with the air coming from the slots 8 and as the steam-pressure is forced in through the slots 12 in the drum 10, the flame is not only caused to spread out from the top of the burner, substantially under pressure, but the character of the flame is changed into a'white gray consistence with intense heat. This takes place because of the interfusion of the moisture and the combusting atoms of the oil during which. that rarification takes place that liberates the heat units in the oil, the steam absorbing or rather disintergrating the carbon content.

The slots in the air tubes and those in the steam drum are sufliciently high from above the plate 3 to permit the retention of the quantity of the oil as may be seen.

l/Vhile I have shown the device as seen in the drawings, it is to be understood that I may provide substitutions for the slotted features, if desired, but it is now thought that the elongated slots will provide a more uniform method of radial liberation of the air and steam; also as to the relative position or location of these slots, this may be a matter of convenience, proportion, if necessary and the size of them may also be governed according to the kind of fuel it will be needed to use in different localities.

This much may be said that dense oil slightly modified will burn as well as a light oil and that without carbon deposit or smell, but really a better combustion.

l-Iaving thus described this invention, I claim:

In an oil burner, the combination of a cylindrical oil retaining member having a base, an opening centrally of the base, a drum concentric with said member having a series of slits therein, means for feeding steam to said drum through said opening, an annular series of air inlet drums surrounding the steam drum, andequidistant- 1y spaced and opening through the base of said oil retaining member, a series of longitudinal air inlets in the sides ofthe airtinlet drums, and means to feed oil to the oil retaining member.

Signed at Oklahoma, in the county of 10 Oklahoma and State of Oklahoma, this 31st day of J anuary,in the year-0f our Lord, ninteen hundred and twenty-five.

SAMUEL B. CLARK. 

